A Call for Applications:
Announcing two national conferences to promote an integrated community
response to sexual violence.

In September 2003, EVAW
in the United States and Carleton University in Canada were awarded grants from
the W. H. Donner and the Donner Canadian Foundations to work with SATI, Inc.,
and Ed Renner, Evaluation Research, and the founder of the National Action Plan Against Sexual Assault (NAPASA) to sponsor two
national conferences within each country to promote an integrated
community response to sexual violence. Attendees of the conferences
will be selected through application only. Conference scholarships
will be awarded to joint applicant teams of six to eight
representatives from the police, prosecution, rape crisis centers
and other sexual assault service providers, within the same
community. The core vision of the conference is to challenge the
legal process to effectively prosecute sex offenders by redefining
the way sexual assaults are conceptualized by the criminal justice
system. The goal of the conference is intervention -- to
effect social change and make a difference in public policy.